ICYMI: How a Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Took Over TikTok

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On today’s episode, Rachelle and Candice answer listener questions about the rapid rise of Donghua Jinlong, a Chinese company that manufactures glycine. Over the past few weeks, paradoxically deadpan and impassioned videos about the high quality of Donghua Jinlong’s products have taken over TikTok. Are teens actually consuming industrial grade chemicals? Or is something even weirder happening? This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
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0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hey, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:44.4	And I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:47.8	In case you missed it.
0:49.1	Sleets podcast about internet culture.
0:51.7	And happy 420, Rachel.
0:54.2	How would you like to celebrate this year?
0:58.1	Um, I think we all have an idea of how I might be celebrating this year.
1:04.0	Let's just say that I'm going to be really in touch with nature.
1:09.1	I'm going to touch some grass, you know?
1:17.9	But while that's going on, what have you been celebrating?
1:20.8	Actually, can I guess?
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